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Aichon

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Announcement: I'm no longer active. My talk page is still your best bet to get in touch. —Aichon— 04:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Inactive

Characters Doug Collins Philosophe Knights
Emma Flynt Big Bash 4
Jamie Flynt Militant Order of Barhah
Orison Flynt Soldiers of Crossman

About Me

American Aichon is American.

Macintosh Aichon is a Macintosh addict and owns several.

Sysop Aichon is a sysop.

Support

Etiquette Aichon supports etiquette.

It's a Joke, OK? Aichon supports using humor, even when other people don't get it.

Logic and Reason Aichon rates Logic and Reason over the power of a shotgun.

Urban Dead

Alt user Aichon has several alts he controls, but he does not zerg.

Urban Dead Aichon plays UD. Umm...duh?

UrbanDead Sponsor! Aichon has contributed to the UrbanDead Beer Fund.

Wiki

Don't Take It Personally Aichon isn't crushed by criticism directed at him. It's all cool.

Formatting Nazi Aichon is a formatting Nazi and will fix your wiki-code without asking.

Grammar Aichon supports the use of proper grammar and spelling on the Wiki.

Intro

Howdy! I'm just an Urban Dead player who's made a point of trying to enjoy as many aspects of the game and its community as possible. Towards that end, I've created userscripts, led or helped to lead some of the top groups, written a handful of guides, and have generally engaged in the wiki community quite a bit. This is the first wiki that I've really gotten involved with, so if you see me making stupid mistakes, clue me in, since I'm still learning. Despite that, the wiki community periodically promotes me to the rank of wiki janitor. God help us all.

In terms of the game, I want to experience everything it had to offer, so as you can see by the character list to the side, I have characters in some of the premier groups of Malton. They all lead separate existences, and a few of them actively fight against the efforts of the others, though they've never met or even gotten close to each other (nor will they ever do so unless I make a major mistake). Oh, and since they're all separate characters, please treat them as such. Just because my zombie's horde may have ruined your day doesn't mean that my survivor won't be coming in afterwards to help you patch things together.

If you need to get in touch with me, use the talk page. If you want a real-time chat about wiki stuff, hit me up on irc.nexuswar.com in #udwiki (I'm good at responding if I'm around, but I'm only on after work hours). If you decide to stalk me in real life, first off, please stop (seriously, I'll call the cops), but if you won't be dissuaded, at least pronounce my screen name correctly before you slit my throat/get arrested: "icon."

Personal Timeline

For those of you who don't know me well and just want to know who I am in the context of the wiki and the game, here are a few notable items in my history.

• Joined the game - August 15th, 2009
• Joined the Soldiers of Crossman - August 29th, 2009
• Helped design the look of the new barricade plans - October 2009
• Joined the Militant Order of Barhah - November 4th, 2009
• Joined the Philosophe Knights - January 7th, 2010
• Promoted to sysop - March 26th, 2010
• Helped with organizing Big Bash 3 - June to September 2010
• Participated in Blackmore 4(04) - August 2010
• Stepped down as sysop - November 25th, 2010
• Went inactive - January 2011
• Active again for second March of The Dead - March 2012
• Became a sysop again - August 24th, 2012
• Became a bureaucrat - October 21st, 2012
• Withdrew to the rank of sysop - May 18th, 2013
• Helped with organizing Big Bash 4 - June to ??? 2013 (ongoing)

Extended Background

I'm a software developer in College Station, Texas, USA. I've interned with various subcontractors for NASA (e.g. Lockheed Martin), and did a stint for four years as a Teaching Assistant at Texas A&M while in grad school, where I had the privilege of assisting the professors in teaching over 2300 students in numerous programming languages and over a variety of subjects.

To cut off the obvious questions, no, I will not help you troubleshoot your computer, nor will I design your wiki page for you. I use and love my Macs because they let me get work done without having to worry about it not working or having to be configured for hours on end to work exactly how I want. As for design, while I like to think my userspace looks cool, it takes me way too long to make things not suck, so I try to avoid it. That said, if you run into a technical issue and put in some serious effort trying to figure it out, I'm usually up for helping people get over those sorts of hurdles.

I've lived on all three of the major coasts in America, in each case in the southern half of the country, so my exposure to cold temperatures is pretty limited. In fact, the place I'm living at now is the furthest inland (around 140 miles/225 km), the highest elevated (about 360 feet/110 m), the most cold (it'll get below freezing a few times each winter), and the most hot (we routinely have highs well over 105°F/40°C each summer) I've ever lived, strange as that may sound to most people out there.

Otherwise, I guess I could point out the fact that I am a Christian that holds pretty traditional/conservative values in terms of most of the controversial issues. For some reason, this tends to surprise people. Go figure.

Technology

Primary machine: 2.7GHz i7 Mac mini running Mac OS 10.8 (and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit)

Monitors: Dual Dell S2409WFP 24" monitors

Keyboard: Filco Ninja Majestouch-2 with Cherry MX Brown switches

Mouse: Logitech MX Revolution

Speakers: Swans M200 MkIII

Router: 1TB Apple Time Capsule

Browser: Apple Safari for Mac, Google Chrome for Windows

Mobile machines: 32GB iPad 2 and a 32GB iPhone 4

Minutiae

Backloggery.com: As most know, I enjoy video games from a large selection of genres (pretty much everything but sports games), but I am most enamored with classic (or soon-to-be classic) games that demonstrate great mechanics. I particularly enjoy underrated games, but I don't let the popularity of something dissuade me from playing it. If you're curious about the games I have or what I'm playing, check me out at the link. In fact, do yourself a favor and sign up there. The site and community are awesome. Feel free to post on my wall and friend me.

MyAnimeList.net: In terms of anime, my tastes are a bit simpler: I usually avoid series that span hundreds of episodes, I don't watch hentai, and the stuff I watch is usually not obscure. Check the link if you want more information about what I've seen or what I'm watching now (assuming I'm watching something, since I've been slowing down recently).

Otherwise, I do a bit of coding for fun in my spare time, and have dabbled in several dozen different programming, scripting, markup, and query languages at this point. Check my userscripts for some examples of coding I've done for fun within the scope of UD.

You might see me around the Internet since I do tend to get around. These days, I go by the Aichon handle almost exclusively (or Aichonic when it's unavailable), but in the past I've used Anubis IV and Orison as handles at various sites and in various services.